Friend-Zoned by Belle Aurora

Mimi
takes Lola’s hand. We form a mini snake. He leads us into the main
club area. There are booths all around the edges of the huge room, there isn’t a
spare seat in sight. You have to walk down four or five steps to
get to the dance floor, which is packed full. The outer rim of the
room is higher than the dance floor. The dance floor is retro tiled
in black and white.
Max leads us to the bar and I’m actually dumbstruck by how awesome
this place is.
There are waitresses walking back and forth from booths to the bar
and they are all wearing costumes. They wear a short light blue and
white pinafore dress with puffy sleeves, thigh high white lace
stockings with garters, and four inch white maryjane heels. They
also wear long blonde wigs with a light blue bow tied atop their
head, false eyelashes, pale makeup, and bright red lips.
Get it??! The White Rabbit is an Alice in Wonderland themed club!!!
So freaking awesome! I love this
place! “I love this place!” I yell
this to Max who bursts out laughing.
Max offers, “Sweetheart, you haven’t even seen the VIP area
yet!”
I’m in awe. There’s
more?! I’m suddenly giddy. I take
another look around. All the walls are painted deep purple; this
has been done whimsically and the artist has mixed white through
the purple in a swirly pattern. There is a huge bronze Cheshire cat
statue by the bar, people are gathering around it and taking photos
with it. Some fantastic Alice in Wonderland prints and paintings
hang around the wall. There are even original cartoon
cells. Oh Em Freakin’
Gee! Max leads us to a staircase and
we climb up. As soon as we reach the top, an Asian Alice smiles at
us and says, “Good evening ladies, do you have a VIP booth
reserved?”
My hearts sinks. I sputter, “Uhh…”
Max interrupts me, “Yeah. It’s under Safira. These are Nik’s
guests.”
Asian Alice’s eyes widen slightly. She utters, “Of course, please
come through.”
We follow her to one of the bigger booths, it can seat at least ten
people and I’m confused as to why she would give us this one when
there are only four of us.
The girls, Max, and I take a seat. We order Cherry Bombs and I look
around while we wait.
Max was right, the VIP area is even better than downstairs. The
booths are black soft leather with bronze buttons down the sides.
Every booth has their own waitress and the music is not as loud up
here so you can talk to each other without yelling. More cells,
prints, and paintings line the walls.
Nik arrives at our booth and speaks, “Ladies, I’m so glad you could
make it.”
He’s smiling at us (dimple and all…yum!) and I know he’s genuinely
happy that we came. He looks delicious in grey slacks, Italian
dress shoes, and a light grey sweater which he’s pushed the sleeves
up to the elbows.
I shriek, “This place is awesome !” Nik laughs as takes a seat
beside me.
He begins, “I can’t believe you’ve never been here.” He feigns
being upset. “I was a little hurt actually.”
I laugh at his antics and respond, “Well, you lured us here and I
can tell you I’ve only been here twenty minutes and I already want
to come back!”
He leans in close to my ear and says, “I’m glad you like it.” He
leans away, winks, and adds, “Now to make sure you have a good
time.” Swoon. ***
    Fuck.
Me. I knew these girls were good
looking but, damn , they clean up nice.
They all look stunning but I’m actually a little disappointed that
Tina is wearing a lot of makeup. She’s normally adorable but
tonight she looks sexy. When I leaned in closer to her I caught her
smell. Goddamn it, she smells like cake! Like vanilla, cinnamon,
and sugar mixed together.
The dress she’s wearing shows off her body; it hugs every sweet
curve. She looks hot.
I’m feeling a little protective of her. I don’t want any of the
guys here to make a move on her. I want her to relax
tonight. Yeah, keep tellin’ yourself
that. Hush, brain.
Someone behind me clears their throat. Ghost